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They couldn't afford to be so truthful in the USA.
All the gun nuts, preppers and private armies would start to mobilise and goodness know what else.
 
California just had its worst drought in over 1200 years, as temperatures and risks rise

In fact, there are at least three different mechanisms that are potentially relevant to the connection between the 2013/2014 California drought and human-caused climate change.

There is (1) the impact of climate change on the pattern of sea surface temperature (SST) off the west coast. One recent study suggests that climate change favors an SST pattern in the North Pacific that increases the incidence of the atmospheric circulation pattern responsible for the current drought.

Then there is (2) the marked decrease in Arctic Sea Ice due to global warming. Studies going back more than a decade show that reduced Arctic sea ice may also favor such an atmospheric circulation pattern. More recent work by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers provides independent support for that mechanism.

Finally, there is (3) the effect of global warming on soil moisture. All other things being equal, warming of soils leads to greater rates of evaporation and drying. This mechanism leads to worsened drought even if rainfall patterns are unchanged.
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Russian heatwave of 2010, Sandy, the "storm factory" system we had last winter, the big European heat wave of 03, the Pakistan floods in around 2010.... there is a constant drum beat of once in 100\500\1000 year events. There will be and international news will bring things to our attention that we would other wise miss. But when we are headed for another near record hot year globally, it all does add up.

This is not even "climate change" yet. This is about 0.45C above the temperatures in the mid 70s. Climate change will be when we start hitting 2 and 3C warmer. To put it into context: the change in global temperature between the last glacial (20 000 years ago) when Birmingham was covered by an ice sheet and the 1950-1970 average temperature was about 5-6C. The last time the Earth was at 400ppm CO2 levels, sea levels were about 20m higher. That is what we are baking into the system. Literly hundreds of years of rising sea levels and instability.

Ho hum. More words and stuff.
 
free spirit said:
ridiculous policy designed to do nothing other than prop up their failing flagship green deal programme and disguise the massive drop in the rate of home insulation under this coalition.
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Funny how the enthusiastic take up in the PV sector resulted in it being quickly reduced for domestic properties?
Had this daft idea,that following a nice warm summer lots of people would be receiving cheques rather than bills from the energy companies:)
 
We haven't really had anything you could really call winter here in South Wales this year. Couple of frosts and a few specks of snow, that's it.
 
Meanwhile climate denier Ted Cruz is running for president:

Beaumont, TX (CNN) – Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions whether global warming is real, arguing that the "data are not supporting what the advocates are arguing."

"The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that – that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened," said Cruz.
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/20/cruz-to-cnn-global-warming-not-supported-by-data/

How can we deal with climate change if the people in charge are scientific illiterates?
 
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Yuwipi Woman said:
Meanwhile climate denier Ted Cruz is running for president:



http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/20/cruz-to-cnn-global-warming-not-supported-by-data/

How can we deal with climate change if the people in charge are scientific illiterates?
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Aye, Obama for all his faults has good renewable credentials, the environment is screwed if wacko bird or any of his ilk get the job.
Be a shame really,as the US really seems to be 'getting it' as far as renewables are concerned.
Cruz and Abbot would get on like a house on fire.
 
MikeMcc said:
You read something that was wrong then...

It's pretty demonstrable that humans contributed pretty much all of the excess CO2 - A simple analysis of the quantities burnt (takes less than 2 sides of A4 paper and not even O-level maths..), O2 depletion, isotope analysis, etc.
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Prove it or shut up
 
COP21 climate change deal a 'huge step, says David Cameron - BBC News
Welcoming the deal, Mr Cameron said Britain was "already leading the way in work to cut emissions and help less developed countries cut theirs".
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Diesel power companies given big tax breaks under Osborne’s energy regime

Wealthy investors to earn millions after £175m of National Grid contracts are awarded to dirty electricity generators
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Once again Talk and Actions completely separate entities
 
Climate change: 2015 'shattered' global temperature record by wide margin

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Thats you fucking telt. Picking up pennies in front of the bulldozer.
 
bluescreen said:
It gets worse. February broke all records. And the Arctic is hotting up more and faster than anywhere else.
February Smashes Earth's All-Time Global Heat Record by a Jaw-Dropping Margin | Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog
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February 2016 was one of the most stunning events we have seen in the climate system of the planet. The after effects of Tambora, the summer Arctic melt season of 2007, there will be a couple of others. But this is insane. Lots of people are saying "el Nino" and yes some of this was el Nino, but most of the heat seemed to be from the Northern continental land masses.

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The "cold blob" to the SE of Greenland is also very freaky. There is some evidence for a slow down in the North Atlantic Drift due to fresh water melt from Greenland. This is controversial but man, seriously its just wow.

In modern records, the Northern Hemisphere has never had as many super intense storms as 2015. An incredible 21 category four or five tropical cyclones have formed in the Northern Hemisphere in 2015, shattering the record of 18 set in 2004.

If Pali's timing wasn't bizarre enough, it reportedly set another record on Tuesday, when it moved closer to the equator than any other Northern Hemisphere cyclone on record.


Tropical Cyclone Winston is strongest ever to hit Fiji

South Africa remains in the grip of its worst drought in decades. Last Thursday the South African Weather Service announced that 2015 was the driest year on record and it shows no sign of abating. Those records date back to 1904.

Indonesia’s ongoing fires, the worst in its history, have been raging for the past six months, with no sign of relenting. They’ve pushed air quality to unprecedented unhealthy levels in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia, while smoke has forced some schools to close, airlines to delay and cancel flights, and has left more than half a million Indonesians suffering from respiratory ailments. Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency called them a “crime against humanity of extraordinary proportions.”

Facing Mekong Drought, China to Release Water From Yunnan Dam
In response to a request from Vietnam, China is discharging water from a dam in Yunnan.

Australia gripped in endless summer as heat breaks records
The Bureau of Meteorology has said the abnormal conditions were affecting almost the entire country in early March, the month which marks the start of autumn

Northern hemisphere temperature breaches a terrifying milestone
Warming appears to have gone into overdrive, with the northern hemisphere going 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures for the first time, says Eric Holthaus

Another all time low for Arctic sea ice in February
U.S. data centre says February ice extent breaks record low in 2005

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This stuff is just failing to register with people.
 
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